Early Modern English
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- Early Modern English
- Orthography (spelling)
- Enclitic and proclitic contractions
- Enclitic = inside a word 'wander'd'
- Proclitic = in front of a word 'twas'
- 'Muficke'
- Capital for noun
- Long S
- Schwa on end
- 'Loue'
- Capital for noun
- 'v' is in the middle of word, so becomes a 'u'
- 'Vpon'
- 'U' is at start of word, so becomes a 'v'
- 'Capacitie'
- Interchange able 'y' and 'i'
- 'Fantafticall'
- Process of neatening
- Enclitic and proclitic contractions
- Grammar
- Shakespeares influence
- Funtional shifts/ conversions
- 'pageants' as a verb
- 'dog them at the heels' noun-verb
- Word order now SVO pattern
- Auxiliary verbs used, although 'to be' was still more common than 'to have' eg 'I am come' rather than 'I have come'
- 'Do' sometimes used as an auxiliary; 'say you so?' 'do you say so?'
- Past tenses still in state of flux - both 'clomb' and 'climbed' were used
- Plural noun endings changed from 6 of old English to just '-s' and '-en'
- Used both verb endings 'loves' and 'loveth'
- Funtional shifts/ conversions
- Shakespeares influence
- Lexis
- Shakespeares influence
- Coinage of new words 'amazement, 'courtship', 'gloomy'
- Many insults were compounds 'crook-pated', 'doghearted' 'clapper-clawed'
- 'You' and 'Thou'
- 'You'
- Both singular and plural
- Lower status people used it to those above them
- Formal way for the upper classes to talk to each other
- 'Thou' and 'thee'
- Higher class people used it to those beneath them
- Lower classes used this with each other
- To address God, witches and the supernatural
- Husband addresses wife as 'thou', she replies with 'you'
- 'Thou' expressed intimacy or affection, or could be an insult
- 'You'
- Shakespeares influence
- Key contextual factors
- The beginning of EME
- Developed after William Caxton developed printing press (1476)
- Bible & other manuscripts printed
- Invention of the printing press made books cheaper, more people learnt to read - bought standardiz ation to English
- Developments in the world at beginning of EME
- The renaissance, the Industrial Revolution & British Colonialism
- The Renaissance
- Time of social & cultural developments
- Time when most words from Greek & Latin entered English
- During reign of Elizabeth 1 there was an explosion of culture
- Support for the arts
- Popularization of the printing press
- Lots of sea travel
- Before Renaissance, Latin was a scientific lingua franca
- Latin used to communicate scientific ideas to countries in Europe whose 1st language wasn't English
- In Renaissance, England produced scientific texts in English
- The beginning of EME
- Orthography (spelling)
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